Krishnapuram, Rajapalayam

Krishnapuram
Krishnapuram, Rajapalayam
Krishnapuram (OP)
village
Krishnapuram
Krishnapuram

Location in Tamil Nadu, India

Coordinates: 9°25′32″N 77°30′26″E / 9.42556°N 77.50722°E / 9.42556; 77.50722Coordinates: 9°25′32″N 77°30′26″E / 9.42556°N 77.50722°E / 9.42556; 77.50722
Country  India
State Tamil Nadu
District Virudhunagar
Languages
  Official Tamil
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 626143
Nearest city Rajapalayam
Lok Sabha constituency Tenkasi
Vidhan Sabha constituency Rajapalayam

Krishnapuram is a village in the Virudhunagar district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is located in the Kollam - Tirumangalam Road National Highways 744 and is about 7 km from Rajapalayam.

Agriculture

Agriculture is the main occupation of the Krishnapuram people. Krishnapuram is bounded by farmlands and crop fields in all the direction. Most of the farming includes coconut, paddy rice, mango, sugarcane, cotton, millet, roots and tuber crops, maize, cucumber, pumpkin and numerous fresh vegetable. There are no mango farms in Krishnapuram. Most of the farms are seen in the outskirts of the village and nearby Ayyanar Koil Forest Area or Western Ghats. As the mango farming is a seasonal one, most of the village farmers are busy in cultivating mango during the summer season. And the ripened mangoes are quite famous around the Krishnapuram locales.

Most of the irrigation processes are carried out in traditional ways. The sources of the irrigation water are mostly wells and in some cases surface water are being pumped into the farmlands.

Politics

Krishnapuram comes under Rajapalayam (State Assembly Constituency) and Tenkasi (Lok Sabha constituency) which is incumbent by Thanga Pandiyan (DMK).


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